Gilbert Arenas

“Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.”

“I'm a goof. C'mon, everyone knows that.”

“Drama sells.”

“When you blink, you're on the back end of your career.”

“When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'”

“You get paid on what you did, not what you're gonna do. That's what people don't understand. You get paid on what you did.”

“It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington, D.C.”

“I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.”

“Just work hard, and things come to life. I am a living truth of it.”

“Chauncey Billups is really not a scoring guard.”

“I can interact with anybody, but I'm shy.”

“I always try to find something funny in any situation.”

“I'm an app creator.”

“I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.”

“There's no such thing as overpaid.”

“I was in honors classes in high school. I'd get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?'”